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Annabelle
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Annabelle is a 2014 American supernatural psychological horror film directed by John R. Leonetti (Mortal Kombat: Annihilation), produced by James Wan, and written by Gary Dauberman. The second film to be set in The Conjuring Universe, it is both a prequel to and Spin-Off of The Conjuring. The film stars Annabelle Wallis, Ward Horton, and Alfre Woodard. It was released worldwide on October 3, 2014.John Gordon has found the perfect gift for both his pregnant wife Mia and their unborn child—Annabelle, a beautiful and rare vintage doll in a pure white wedding dress. Unfortunately, the family's delight with the doll is shortlived. On one horrific night, their home is invaded by members of a satanic cult, who violently attack John and Mia. Spilled blood and terror are not all they leave behind. The cultists have conjured an entity, which is so malevolent that nothing they did will compare to the sinister conduit to the damned that is now Annabelle.The film got its own prequel in 2017 called Annabelle: Creation. A sequel to the first film, titled Annabelle Comes Home, followed in 2019. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Though the film does an appreciable job to avoid this, there are still several anachronisms (the film is set in the early Seventies): While 911 has been used as a national emergency number since 1968, it didn't cover much of the United States until later. Mia's sewing machine is IKEA. IKEA didn't show up in the US until 1985, or even have a store outside Scandinavia until 1973. Mia is hooked up in an IV kit contained in a plastic bag after giving birth to Leah. In that time period, one would be hooked into a glass bottle◊. Plastic bags weren't used until mid 1970's. Ultrasound didn't really take off in the United States until the late 70's/early 80's. As mentioned in Series Continuity Error below, if you take the year tags of the films at face value, you would assume that the film takes place in 1967 (as The Conjuring states that the nurses give Annabelle to the Warrens in 1968, and this film happens a year before that). If so, the mention of the Sharon Tate murder would be an anachronism, since she was murdered in 1969. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: In the store at the end of the movie where Annabelle ends up before finding a new owner, you can see an actual Raggedy Ann doll sitting on a shelf in the background in the same shot as Annabelle, in a nod to the real Annabelle doll. | |
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Offing the Offspring | |
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Offing the Offspring: Subverted. After Leah disappears, Mia repeatedly slams Annabelle into the crib before throwing it down, only to discover that the doll is apparently her baby transformed, and she has a brief My God, What Have I Done? moment. However, the demon is doing this just to mess with Mia, as Leah is still alive and in his possession. | |
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Haunted Fetter | |
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Haunted Fetter: The Annabelle doll serves as one to the demon. | |
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Number of the Beast | |
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Number of the Beast: When Mia's stuck in the storage room elevator with the devil, no less, she frantically tries in vain to get to the 6th floor 3 times. | |
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Magical Negro | |
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Magical Negro: Evelyn has shades of this. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Foregone Conclusion: In The Conjuring, the Annabelle doll still exists and is still a very dangerous item. And the movie itself shows what happened before other characters got the doll and were terrified by it. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: It depends entirely on your point of view. On the one hand, the family is fine and the doll is gone by the end. On the other, it was only after Evelyn effectively committed suicide after offering her soul to the demon. So everyone else is fine, but she's dead and probably hellbound. The one silver lining is "God still has a purpose for you." So presumably her sacrifice somehow didn't end with her hellbound. | |
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Improbable Infant Survival | |
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Improbable Infant Survival: The whole point of the film is that all the main characters have to do something so Leah can survive the haunting unharmed. Ultimately played straight, but at the cost of Evelyn's life. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Evelyn takes Mia's place to save Leah by sacrificing her own soul. | |
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Supernatural-Proof Father: John is resistant to believe that the events have supernatural origins, but he's still more than willing to believe his wife. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Idiot Ball: Sure, Mia, it's SUCH a good idea to leave your poor, defenseless baby BY HERSELF in the apartment while you go to the storage unit, even though you've been threatened in that very apartment by violent spirits. That couldn't possibly end horribly. Note It actually did end up being okay with the baby ending up no worse for wear, but it was still a stupid thing to do. | |
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Self-Made Orphan | |
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Self-Made Orphan: Annabelle the cultist murders her parents before committing suicide to complete the ritual to return the demon inside her to the doll. | |
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Creepy Doll | |
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Creepy Doll: Annabelle is already creepy enough even before she becomes a conduit for whatever is worshiped by the cultists. | |
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Tuckerization | |
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Tuckerization: Mia and John's names reference Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes, the stars of a major influence on the film, Rosemary's Baby, which was also directed by Sharon Tate's widower, Roman Polański. | |
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Creepy Basement | |
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Creepy Basement: Mia's first physical encounter with the Big Bad takes place in a dark basement. At night. | |
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Outliving One's Offspring | |
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Outliving One's Offspring: Evelyn lost her daughter in a car accident that was technically her fault. | |
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Greater-Scope Villain | |
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Greater-Scope Villain: Annabelle Higgins, who turned the doll evil in the first place. the prequel reveals this to be a Subversion having been possessed by the demon against her will for more than a decade she is as much a victim as anyone else, and that this is in fact the second time that doll has been possessed by that specific demon. | |
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Action Dad: John does a pretty good job of fending off both Annabelle Higgins and her boyfriend after they attack Mia. | |
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Imperiled in Pregnancy | |
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Imperiled in Pregnancy: Almost nine months into her pregnancy, Mia has to endure: being stabbed in the stomach with a knife, then having to helplessly see her kitchen caught on flame, choked with smoke, violently thrown into the floor, and then pulled by an unseen force when she crawls away for dear life. Thankfully, she manages to give birth to her baby relatively unharmed. | |
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Offscreen Teleportation | |
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Offscreen Teleportation: Highlighted during a scene when Annabelle (the cultist)'s ghost haunts Leah. She is first seen limping through the nursery room at the far end of the corridor...only to suddenly appear in the living room (still limping) right in front of the sleeping Mia. | |
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Series Continuity Error | |
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Series Continuity Error: It is pretty clear that the film is meant to take place at the very least in 1969. The Sharon Tate murder being mentioned is the most obvious indication, but if you freeze frame the newspaper covering Annabelle Higgins' ritual, it says that the ritual takes place on October 3, 1970. These contradict The Conjuring, which shows the Warrens confiscating Annabelle in the year 1968. The filmmakers might have forgotten the year tag in the opening of The Conjuring and instead assumed that the Warrens confiscate Annabelle the same year they deal with the Perron case, which is in 1971. This would make the "ONE YEAR EARLIER" tag in the opening scene of this film and the above newspaper dated October 3, 1970 a lot more sense. Finally settled in this video, which confirmed the film's 1970 setting. So yes, there is a retcon. | |
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Big Red Devil | |
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Big Red Devil: The demon worshiped by the Disciples of the Ram is dark-skinned instead of red, but it has all features of the typical depiction of the Devil, complete with horns. | |
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Cool Old Lady | |
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Cool Old Lady: Evelyn. She is able to suggest a cause and solution for whatever happened to Leah before anyone else does. And she actively talks Mia into discussing her problem rather than hiding it. Plus, she is pushed down by the demon and shrugs it off! | |
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Red Herring | |
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Red Herring: Annabelle's ghost? Nope. Everything is caused by a demon that was apparently summoned by the cult to which she belonged. That said, the Warrens already said anything about this in The Conjuring. | |
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Cult: The "Disciples of the Ram", the cult the living Annabelle belonged to. | |
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Elevator Escape | |
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Elevator Escape: At one point, Mia escapes into an elevator. | |
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Historical Beauty Update: Inverted with Annabelle. The real Annabelle doll is a Raggedy Ann doll, not the more human-looking and terrifying thing that appears here. | |
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